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The St. Charles Avenue Streetcar is a streetcar line in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, it is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...
September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ...
1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Rail gauge is the distance between two rails of a railroad. ...
A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a metre. ...
Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of length. ...
A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ...
As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ...
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New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...
a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ...
New Orleans (local pronunciations: , , or ) (French: La Nouvelle-Orléans, pronounced in standard French accent) is a major U.S. port city and historically the largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ...
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering. ...
a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ...
 St. Charles Streetcar passes the old Carrollton City Hall Building on Carrollton Avenue, April, 2005 The line starts uptown, at Carollton Avenue and Claiborne Avenue. It runs on Carrollton Avenue through the Carrollton neighborhood towards the Mississippi River, then near the river levee turns on to Saint Charles Avenue. It proceeds past entrances to Audubon Zoo, Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans, continues through the Garden District, and ends at Canal Street in the New Orleans Central Business District at the edge of the French Quarter, a distance of about fifteen miles. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1155x765, 332 KB) 1920s Pearly Thomas Streetcar passing old Carrollton City Hall Building, Carrollton Avenue, Uptown New Orleans Photo by Infrogmation, April, 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: St. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1155x765, 332 KB) 1920s Pearly Thomas Streetcar passing old Carrollton City Hall Building, Carrollton Avenue, Uptown New Orleans Photo by Infrogmation, April, 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: St. ...
Carrollton is a neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. It is the part of uptown New Orleans furthest up river from the French Quarter. ...
This page is about the river in the United States; there is also a Canadian Mississippi River (Ontario). ...
A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, to raise), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial embankment or dike, usually earthen, which parallels the course of a river. ...
The Audubon Zoo is a zoo located in New Orleans and is part of the Audubon Nature Institute. ...
Tulane University Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational Jesuit university in the United States with 5,900 students (3800 undergraduates). ...
The Garden District is a residential area of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Canal Street is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
The Central Business District is an area of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
French Quarter: upper Chartres street looking down towards Jackson Square and the spires of St. ...
The line still uses streetcars which were common all over the United States in the early parts of the 20th century. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
Most of the streetcars currently on the line are Perley Thomas cars dating from the 1920s. One 1890s vintage streetcar is still in running condition; it is used for maintenance and special uses. Perley A. Thomas Car Works, Inc. ...
Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ...
The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
History
The line was founded as the New Orleans and Carollton Rail Road in February 1833. Service began on September 26, 1835, originally without a dedicated right-of-way, although one was eventually established in the neutral ground (the median). Over the early years the cars were powered by horses, mules, overhead cables, ammonia engines, and steam engines. It was electrified February 1, 1893. 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ...
1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
On an expressway, motorway, or autobahn, the median (North American English) or central reservation (British English) is the strip of grass or the wall which separates opposing lanes of traffic. ...
Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. ...
A steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the thermal energy that exists in steam, converting it to mechanical work. ...
February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Post World War II, like in many US cities, many of the city's numerous streetcar lines were changed to buses. Preservationists protested the dismantling of the Canal Street streetcar line in the early 1960s. While they were unsuccessful in saving the Canal line (which the city would bring back 40 years later), the preservationists succeeding in getting the city government to grant the Saint Charles line protected historic status. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
In the Carrolton neighborhood the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority has a streetcar barn where the streetcars of the city's lines are stored and maintained. The shop there has become adept at duplicating any part needed for the cars, and converted some modern streetcars into near duplicates in appearance of the old cars for the city's newer streetcar lines. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (or RTA) is a body established by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1979; since 1983 it has controlled bus and light-rail service in the City of New Orleans. ...
Hurricane Katrina The St. Charles line area fared comparatively well in Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on New Orleans at the end of August, 2005, with moderate flooding only of the two ends of the line at Claiborne Avenue and at Canal Street. The vintage streetcars rode out the storm in the sealed barn in a portion of Old Carrollton that didn't flood, and are undamaged. However wind damage and falling trees took out many sections of catenary along St. Charles Avenue, and vehicles parked on the neutral ground over the inactive tracks have degraded parts of the right-of-way. At the start of October, 2005, as this part of town started being repopulated, bus service began running on the St. Charles line. In late December 2005, it was announced that the St. Charles line would stay inactive until approximately Fall 2006. The time is needed to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina and to other maintenance/upgrades to the lines that was scheduled before the hurricane (leaving the line shut down and electrical system unpowered will allow the upgrades to be performed more safely and easily). Several historic cars have been transferred to serve on the recently-rebuilt Canal Street line while the flood-damaged Canal cars are being repaired. Wikinews has news related to this article: Category:New Orleans Disaster Disaster recovery American Red Cross: Official donation site www. ...
In mathematics, the catenary is the shape of a hanging flexible chain or cable when supported at its ends and acted upon by a uniform gravitational force (its own weight). ...
References - U.S. Urban Rail Transit Lines Opened From 1980 (PDF)
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